What I am
I see things you do not
I feel what you cannot
I think what you want
I believe what you will not
I am who you are not
I think I am smart
I think you really are not
I should be like you, I thought
I was told that a lot
If I was like you, then 'me' would rot
I tried to achieve a lot
I tried being me but I forgot
I forgot and thought I was what I was not
I remember someone who changed me a lot
I think it was so in the future, hide, I will not.
I recall when I left…I put them on the spot,
I left for a guy with whom I had no shot
I found out later that he loves me not
I look around me now at the empty lot
I know that he left me here to rot
I don't know if he knows that he's taught me a lot
I now know what I am and what I am not
I am a girl, who tried very hard,
I am a girl with a failed heart
I am a follower not a leader at all
I am me.
